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TagSecondary Student Teaching: Week 5
Preparing for Tempera Still-Life Painting
When preparing the students to create a composition for a painting or drawing, it is impo..
Laurel Nakadate
Once again, I find myself writing about the visiting artist lecture series. If you haven’t read the posts about it before, the visitin..
The Big Show (Part 2): A Simple Cereal
On April 20th, the crowd entered the B&P Gallery with the smell of baked cereal in the air. A Kitchenaid mixer whirred to life, and th..
Bringing the Writing to You: Alexie Price
So you can get an idea of the writing that the Fiction Writing Department is producing, I am publishing excerpts from work by my fello..
Shadow Puppets + Science = Love
One of the major components of each of our methods courses is writing a lesson plan for the content area we’re studying. I have to adm..
Blogging
It’s funny that I am going to be blogging about blogging, but I have some exciting news that I want to share. That will come in a minu..
Secondary Student Teaching – Week 4
PINHOLE CAMERA: HOW TO CONSTRUCT A PINHOLE CAMERA
In the previous lesson, the students learned the basic functions of an SLR camera..
A Week in the Life
In Film Theory class we took an in depth look at John Carpenter’s Halloween. Every time I saw young Jamie Lee Curtis I couldn’t help but hum the Activia theme song.
FAQS: What do you read in your program?
At Columbia College Chicago, not only did I learn a lot about how to write, I also learned how to read. Well, I already knew how to re..
The Big Show (Part 1): Thesis Prep
We knew this day would come. The InterArts Thesis class enters the Book & Paper Gallery at 1104 South Wabash this week. There are long..